Bug 595989

I can confirm this with clean F13 install. The blank screen can be removed with alt+f4 btw.

Looking forward to see the slideshow fully functional.

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I'm also having this issue on a clean F13.

Me too, both i386 and x86_64 with intel video:


gthumb-2.11.5-1.fc13.i686
clutter-1.2.10-1.fc13.i686
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.8.2-2.fc13.i686
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.11.0-5.fc13.i686
kernel-PAE-2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686.PAE


gthumb-2.11.5-1.fc13.x86_64
clutter-1.2.10-1.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.8.2-2.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.11.0-5.fc13.x86_64
kernel-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64


The slideshow window becomes totally unresponsive; the main window is still working fine.

Extra observation: if the transition effect is set to None in the slideshow pane of the preferences dialog, the slideshow starts working fine.

Yes changing the 'transition effect' setting appear to work for me.

This issue and workaround is also listed at
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623168

BTW: there is a new release of gthumb [but this issue is unchanged in this release]

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gthumb-list/2010-August/msg00000.html

(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> Slideshow in gthumb hangs
> 
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> 
> gthumb-2.11.3-1.fc13.x86_64
> 
> How reproducible:
> 
> always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Upgrade from F12 to F13 via preupgrade
> 2. run gthumb [for eg: cd pics; gthumb .]
> 3. click ' view as slideshow' icon
> 
> Actual results:
> 
> a blank fullscreen
> 
> Expected results:
> 
> a poper slideshow
> 
> Additional info:
> 
> I have to do 'alt-tab' to get out of this blank fullscreen. [Escape key does
> not work]. However  'switch to fullscreen' option works fine.

Having the same issue in F14 (gthumb-2.11.90-3.fc14.i686)

The problem is gone with the latest clutter updates for F13:

clutter-1.2.14-1.fc13
clutter-gtk-0.10.6-1.fc13
gthumb-2.11.91-1.fc13

both i686 and x86_64, Intel graphics.

Problem still occurs on F14 with radeon r600 graphics. 

gthumb-2.12.0-1.fc14.x86_64
clutter-1.2.14-1.fc14.x86_64
clutter-gtk-0.10.8-1.fc14.1.x86_64

Believe it has something to do with 

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30751

If that is the case, F14 may need a clutter update to 1.4 or the fix may need to be backported to clutter 1.2

Kevin, thanks for the hint!

Indeed
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30751
pointed to
http://bugzilla.clutter-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2228
which lead to the following patch:
http://git.clutter-project.org/clutter/commit/?id=609560b1cb44f4d209de810cc9b94d8d49ba2db5

It applies (with "-F 5") to clutter in F14 and fixes the problem with the slideshow in gthumb! ;-)

I'm not sure about any unwanted side-effects, but at least gnome-shell seems to work fine...

Unfortunately clutter's test suite dies with a segfault even with the current clutter release in F14.

@clutter maintainers: please can you review whether you can add the following patch to the clutter package in Fedora?

http://git.clutter-project.org/clutter/commit/?id=609560b1cb44f4d209de810cc9b94d8d49ba2db5

Thank you very much in advance!

Re-assigning to clutter component...

If I can do anything to help fixing this bug in clutter, please just let me know!

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Clutter Team, any comments on this bug?

On my ATI card, I found that this option helps

CLUTTER_VBLANK=none
export CLUTTER_VBLANK


I set this in my .bashrc file and then logout and login

The ATI fix does not work for an intel graphic card :
$ gthumb
**
GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2270:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)
Abandon (core dumped)

Interesting the CLUTTER_VBLANK=none also helps on my recently install Intel video based laptop.

Do you have dbus disabled?

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